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2801. PelleNilsson - 3/27/2005 9:02:51 AM Spring is here at last although we still have a lot of snow around. The last couple of days we have had sun and 10-15C (50-60F) Yesterday we heard the nice cadences of this fellow, Sweden's favourite bird, for the first time this year.
 2802. thoughtful - 3/27/2005 4:06:44 PM pelle...the picture isn't showing on my machine...
wah! 2803. PelleNilsson - 3/27/2005 8:09:09 PM Sorry about that. It showed on my box but I didn't notice it was nonlinkable. Here he is again (and it is a he, vide the yellow beak):
 2804. Magoseph - 3/27/2005 10:51:43 PM I wonder why I see your first picture and Thoughtful can't see it, Pelle? 2805. wonkers2 - 3/28/2005 12:02:01 AM What's the name of the bird? 2806. Magoseph - 3/28/2005 2:22:07 AM This site has a bird that looks like Pelle's bird 2807. Magoseph - 3/28/2005 2:51:02 AM Another site for a Blackbird 2808. judithathome - 3/28/2005 5:24:42 AM 2806 made me snicker. 2809. The Summer Woman - 3/28/2005 5:37:39 AM Blackbird, sing... 2810. jayackroyd - 3/28/2005 8:00:05 AM My favorite black european bird is the
chough
Saw them in Switzerland some time ago. 2811. Macnas - 3/29/2005 9:01:57 AM I know this should be in the poetry thread, but it is one of my very favourites and, while worthy in its own right, is very topical: The Blackbird Of Derrycairn
Stop, stop and listen for the bough top
Is whistling and the sun is brighter
Than God's own shadow in the cup now
Forget the hour bell. Mournful matins
Will sound as well, Patric, at nightfall.
Faintly through mist of broken water
Fionn heard my melody in Norway,
He found the forest track he brought back
This beak to gild the branch and tell there
Why men must welcome in the daylight.
He loved the breeze that warns the black grouse,
The shout of gillies in the morning
When packs are counted and the swans cloud
Loch Erne, but more than all those voices,
My throat rejoicing from the hawthorn.
In little cells behind a cashel,
Patric, no handbell has a glad sound,
But knowledge is found among the branches.
Listen! The song that shakes my feathers
Will thong the leather of your satchels.
Stop, stop and listen for the bough top
Is whistling . . .
2812. Magoseph - 3/29/2005 3:34:44 PM Could be topical in Religion and Philosophy, Mac. 2813. ronski - 3/29/2005 5:22:11 PM There was a blackbird at one the feeders this morning. I have never seen one at a feeder before. 2814. wonkers2 - 3/29/2005 9:43:48 PM  Purple Grackle--elegant blackbird at my feeder yesterday
2815. thoughtful - 3/29/2005 10:08:34 PM i hate grackles and starlings....junkie birds in my book
2816. thoughtful - 3/29/2005 10:10:39 PM For a pretty black bird, you can't beat a red winged
 2817. Magoseph - 3/29/2005 10:19:57 PM Wonk, that is a great picture you took, my friend. thoughtful, we have this bird here. Flexy says we have these birds here because of the river and the swamps. 2818. wonkers2 - 3/29/2005 10:26:39 PM Thanks, Mago. Haven't seen any Redwing Blackbirds yet this spring. But saw a couple of Robins yesterday. Grackles can be nasty birds. According to the Cornell ornithology website they sometimes kill and eat small birds. The four or five I've seen in my yard seem to get along with the sparrows and wrens. 2819. thoughtful - 3/29/2005 10:26:44 PM but for striking color, i love the american goldfinch in summer plummage
 2820. thoughtful - 3/29/2005 10:33:59 PM yes i used to see the r-w black birds where i grew up a lot as we had a lot of ponds and brooks around. I've been surprised to hear them over the past few weeks on my a.m. walks.
It's very strange.
I walk down this back street, up the hill and back the other way on the main drag on my a.m. walks so the back yards of the houses on the back street meet the back yards of the houses on the main street. It's kinda wooded in that area, but not overly dense. Anyway, just in that one section, maybe 2 houses wide, it's always full of birds. Most of the time I'll see maybe a dozen crows or more. Then there was almost a week with a huge flock of starlings...easily a hundred or more...there with the crows, and it's in that section that I hear the r-w black bird too. I have no idea why the birds are so attracted to just that one narrow section, but there they are. This a.m when I walked past there I heard, though couldn't see, a number of gobbling turkeys too.
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